Migrating Subversion Repositories across servers

Question

We\'re in the process of moving servers and one of the last items is moving over the svn repositories.

There are about 10 gigs of various svn repositories. They wer

Answer 1

First of all, I am not a Subversion administrator, but I work a lot with them. So don't trust my words only, check other sources as well.

My experience over the last 5 years was:

• To move Subversion repositories, you should use the Subversion admin tools dump and load. They are written just for that job.
• dump and load check additionally that everything is ok. By using them, you get additional "insurance" that everything moved ok.
• We have never migrated over 2 major versions, but moved from one major version to the next. You should at least check, that migration from 1.4.x to 1.6.x is supported. Often the new server version support the direct previous version, and supports the migration. So perhaps you have to do the migration for each repository twice.
• You may work on the old repositories as long as they are moving, because subversion allows you to add later newer revisions.
• Because all can be done by command line, you may automate most of it, and the subversion admins only have to check that everything has worked well.

So, yes, I would recommend to move one repository after each other.